This Week in Elasticsearch - January 22, 2014

Welcome to
This week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Elasticsearch core

The Elasticsearch 1.0 branch has been cut and will be used for the upcoming 1.0 release and related enhancements. The 1.x branch has been added as well for future development, still related the 1.x major versions. The next major version of Elasticsearch (2.0) will be developed on master. No changes have been made to the 0.90 branch.

Many commits relate to the REST spec and tests: the test coverage for the REST layer has been remarkably improved, and those same test suites are used to test all our official clients too (e.g. commit 1 and commit 2)

A preview release of the integration for Ruby's ActiveModel-based models has been published aselasticsearch-model, with ActiveRecord and Mongoid working out-of-the-box. The semantics are very similar to the widely-used (Re)Tire gem, making the migration easy. You can generate a fully working Ruby on Rails application with a template

Britta Weber will present on Customizing Your Scoring Using function_score at the Munich Search Meetup on February 5th. Sebastian Paetzold from ysura will speak on Permission Management with Elasticsearch. Doors open at 7 PM.

The Elasticsearch New York Meetup will be held on February 3rd. In addition to hearing from our host, The Ladders, about their use of Elasticsearch, Shay Banon will be on hand for Q&A on all things Elasticsearch.

The Elasticsearch DC Meetup will get together on February 5th at 6:30 PM. Attendees will be treated to an in depth look at how NGP VAN uses Elasticsearch.

The next Elasticsearch Boston Meetup will take place on February 6th. Attendees will be treated to an open Q&A from Elasticsearch creator Shay Banon, plus a series of lightning talks. Doors open at 6 PM.

The Elasticsearch Denver Meetup group will be getting together on February 24th to hear about Automattic's use of Elasticsearch. Doors open at 6:30 PM and Elasticsearch core developer Lee Hinman will also be on hand for Q&A.

We're working on setting dates for our first ever meetup in Portland, Oregon. Sign up for the Portlandia Meetup Group to get regular updates.

Where to Find You

Our Community Manager,
Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort, take a moment to let her know.

Oh yeah, we're also
hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note. We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticearch, Kibana and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: